Quotes About Curiosity

When you see a fly flitting around your hair or your potato salad, you might see an annoyance. But in my lab, you really see a marvelous machine: arguably the most sophisticated flying device on the planet.

I haven't ever seen 'Lost'... I'm sorry.

I think there is a certain lack of curiosity when it comes to Canada because it just sort of seems like it's just the North - what could be interesting about that?

I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.

For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things out. I've never wanted to do the same things over and over. Some think I've accomplished what I set out to do, and others consider me a dilettante.

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.

I sometimes think I was always left-wing. I know that sounds completely crazy, but I do know that I asked questions when I was about four, and I remember noticing that I wasn't getting an answer, and I remember it annoying me.

I love trying new things and experimenting with instruments and sounds.

I used to follow people home. I just like being anonymous so much that I would follow people home because they didn't know who I was, and I could watch them. I know how that sounds. I could not exist but observe.

Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.

I collect art like other people eat pizza. I can't get enough of it. I need a constant source of inspiration.

Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.

Because people don't see me around a lot, I'm the source of all sorts of rumour.

You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

My mom cautioned me not to become a gossip! I was always up in people's business. People told me stuff... even when I didn't ask and I channeled my story gathering and good sources into a hunger for the news.

I'm fairly practiced at squirreling out stories and sources - I talk to people; I ask people if they know anyone worth talking to.

The Deep South has the friendliest people in the world. They will do anything for you. They also want to know what's going on and won't hesitate to ask questions.

I've never been to Barcelona, I'd like to go there; also South America.

I went to South Korea once and I saw young people, about 15, they had skipped school to come see 'Band of Outsiders.'

As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.

It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.

The people who built the space program - both Soviet and U.S. - were readers of science fiction.

Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.